Best Cafes in Buenos Aires
A list of the 9 best cafes in Buenos Aires, including Café Tortoni (Monserrat, Buenos Aires). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.
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Café Tortoni
cafeMonserrat, Buenos Aires
Opened in 1858 on Avenida de Mayo, the city's oldest café and a legally protected Bar Notable once frequented by Borges and Gardel.
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Las Violetas
cafeAlmagro, Buenos Aires
A 19th-century confitería on Rivadavia and Medrano with French stained glass and marble floors, voted the city's top Café Notable in 2017.
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Bar El Federal
cafeSan Telmo, Buenos Aires
A former pulpería from 1864 at Carlos Calvo and Perú, now a Café Notable known for old-style picadas and vermut served with a table siphon.
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Microcentro, Buenos Aires
A dim, narrow specialty-coffee bar on Suipacha that pioneered single-origin espresso downtown; ranked among the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops two years running.
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Palermo, Buenos Aires
An Australian-style specialty coffee and all-day brunch spot on Arévalo, ranked among the World's 100 Best Coffee Shops in both 2025 and 2026.
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Bar de Cao
cafeSan Cristóbal, Buenos Aires
A corner grocery-turned-bar from 1915 on Independencia and Matheu, restored and reopened in 2005, marking its centennial as a Notable Bar in 2025.
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Café Margot
cafeBoedo, Buenos Aires
A 1904 corner bar on Avenida Boedo, bohemian haunt of writers and boxers, said to have served Perón its famous sandwich; a designated Site of Cultural Interest.
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Ninina
cafePalermo, Buenos Aires
A specialty-coffee bakery-café on Gorriti pioneering third-wave coffee in Buenos Aires since 2013; ranked #64 in the inaugural 2025 World's 100 Best Coffee Shops list.
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San Nicolás, Buenos Aires
Belle-époque confitería and Bar Notable on Suipacha, open since 1912; closed in 2016 and reopened six years later with its French chandeliers and stained glass restored.
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